The Latest Breaking News from Pennsylvania

As the start of the school year rapidly approaches, controversy can’t be far behind. But not all hot-button topics in education are about what goes on in class.

President Biden has a new reelection campaign catchphrase: Bidenomics.

The Third Circuit holds that, once the government released the documents, it couldn't then forbid the grandmother (or others) from publishing them.

From Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht's concurrence yesterday in Bert Co. v. Turk (and see here for Justice Wecht's broader discussion of unenumerated rights): … While I have significant doubts about much of the jurisprudence that controls the present inquiry and that assigns punitive damage awards a federal "constitutional…

From Commonwealth v. Hanner, decided last week by the Pennsylvania intermediate appellate court, in an opinion by Judge John Bender, joined by Judges Mary Jane Bowes and Megan Sullivan: The facts, as taken in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth as the verdict winner, are straightforward. Sometime during 2021,…

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A hero dog key in locating escaped inmate Michael Burham will get a $2,000 reward for his role in recapturing the suspected killer.

Unions are working together to push for better environmental standards and greener technology in the industry

Federal safety investigators say they've determined that natural gas was leaking from a defective fitting at a Pennsylvania chocolate factory where a powerful explosion killed seven people

Homicide suspect who had used bed sheets to escape from Pennsylvania jail captured after nine days

Forty-three special elections for state legislative seats have been called in 16 states so far in 2023.